“Laggard” is a new track from Sugarface, showing a serene sound guided by a meshing of mandolin, acoustics, and melodica. Bird chirps and strumming acoustics start, joined by a light and playful lead thereafter. Trickling guitars, at points like the two-minute mark, cast a climactic pull alongside the creeping vocals. The bridge at 02:24 engages alongside twinkling keys. “Laggard” succeeds in its aesthetic and melodic pull.
“I built the song from the main melodic line that I played on a piano one day. I tried to keep the rest of the arrangement in that intimate space,” the artist writes. “The song details a day of an American factory worker as he gets the urge to insert a bit of agency into the life he’d simply been going along with.”
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“Laggard” and other memorable tracks from this month can also be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of September 2020’ Spotify playlist.
